Exports of rice and cereals banned in Niger. Only the two neighbors allied within the AES, Burkina Faso and Mali, will be able to receive Nigerien foodstuffs. Measure decided by General Tiani this week to “protect supplies” in the country. Millet, sorghum, rice, cowpea and corn, the list of products that will have to remain on Nigerien soil is quite long.
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It is to prevent the flight of foodstuffs that the military regime in power decided on these bans.
In the south of Niger, the ears of millet and cowpea hulls, once collected, quickly find themselves on Nigerian stalls. On the other side of the border, the city of Kano is the hub of these exchanges.
However, in Niger, stocks of agricultural products are low. “ A question of time », we are told. “They were not reconstituted after our quarantine,” assures a professional in the sector in the south of the country, referring to the sanctions imposed by ECOWAS and lifted last February.
Rice and millet exports were already banned for a quarter last year. Despite this, in total, 1,500 tonnes of Nigerian cereals and 840 tonnes of cowpea were exported, the vast majority to Ghana and Nigeria.
Trade will still be authorized towards Niamey’s allies, Mali and Burkina Faso. logical decision, but above all symbolic, only small quantities are exported to these countries.
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